Henry Louis Gates Quotes
I would like to do a series about sequencing the human genome, and also analyze more human diversity among other ethnic groups - a 'Faces of America 2.'
Quotes to Explore
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We keep, in science, getting a more and more sophisticated view of our essential ignorance.
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The day I leave Paris is the day I go down a level or quit football.
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Never eat spinach just before going on the air.
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I love Yves Saint Laurent and Giambattista Valli and Givenchy, and I get given quite a lot, but perhaps nothing is as wonderful as the white fake leather trench coat I got when I was 15.
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Children must be considered in a divorce considered valuable pawns in the nasty legal and financial contest that is about to ensue.
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Give a talk to children and tell them dinosaurs didn't drag their tails, and you get arguments.
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We talk about quantum weirdness and things being in two places at once, but it all involves atoms and molecules, stuff we don't normally interact with.
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No one ever complains about a speech being too short!
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I took a job at a white-shoe NYC law firm, with an office, business cards, and a fat starter paycheck.
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Mass layoffs produce big winners and losers. Most workers who remain are financially unscathed, even though their employer is struggling.
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I always tell people I'm very large in Uzbekistan.
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The aim of flattery is to soothe and encourage us by assuring us of the truth of an opinion we have already formed about ourselves.
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I'm not going to change my game because I got hurt.
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Agreements are always the product of time and place.
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Learning is not compulsory... neither is survival.
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Why is it that whenever I hear a piece of music I don't like, it's always by Villa-Lobos?
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Religion has convinced us that there's something else entirely other than concerns about suffering. There's concerns about what God wants, there's concerns about what's going to happen in the afterlife.
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I don't think I would change anything. I think we've done a fairly good job of remaining sane and making the right decisions.
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The dogma of woman's complete historical subjection to men must be rated as one of the most fantastic myths ever created by the human mind.
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I didn't know the books and certainly didn't know the tragic origin story of Mary Poppins in 1906 Australia.
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Workers come to America to fill jobs unwanted by Americans, but they are staying and they are not going home.
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It's interesting, as I said on the last tour in America, the audience actually came out, they had to have been the kind of fans who listened to my music via their parents, you know what I mean?
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I would like to do a series about sequencing the human genome, and also analyze more human diversity among other ethnic groups - a 'Faces of America 2.'
